bronchial
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of bronchial
First recorded in 1725–35; bronchi(a) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
Perhaps the most grotesque episode features the boys salvaging their grandmother’s hot tub, promising Dad they’ll keep it clean and then contracting some kind of gruesome, racking bronchial affliction that coughs up another moral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
“I’d hoped to power through the Phoenix show but I had a bronchial infection and a last-minute adverse reaction to medication,” Hackett wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Research suggests that toxins in the smoke may be responsible for a series of ailments suffered by veterans, including cancer, bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, sleep apnea, bronchitis and sinusitis.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
At the end of the fifth test, the subject was sent home to New York with three or four aspirins in an engraved envelope for his sniffles, which turned out to be bronchial pneumonia.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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